Mercy and The Schedule #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleMercy at Bedtime #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleSurviving and Thriving A Family Reunion As a Catholic Mom! #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleTeaching Our Kids about Mercy – The Sacrament of Confession #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleWhat Mercy Isn't #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleThe Feet Washing: How God gave his mercy through me #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleAdvanced Mercy: Loving the In-Laws #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleExtending Mercy to Mothers in Crisis Pregnancies #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleThe Blessing Ring
This is the third year our parish has sponsored a “backyard mission trip” – a week of service to your own community – for our high school teens. One of the most important goals of the week is to help...
View ArticleGrab Some Sunscreen and Some Jesus
Copyright 2016 Phoebe Dill, Unsplash August is a pretty crazy month. It’s usually filled with summer vacation, camp, Vacation Bible School, and trying to get ready for school–which is no small thing...
View ArticleEight reasons God’s mercy helps us forgive ourselves #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
View ArticleTo Visit the Imprisoned
It’s a corporal work of mercy that, so often in my life, I’ve opted to sort of skirt around. I’m a mother, after all, and this means vigilance when it comes to my family. And so the thought of visiting...
View ArticleFall Into His Arms
Photo by Jeremy Cooper via Unsplash (2015) CC0. Text added by author. There went September and for many of us, it knocked us over like a gust of wind leaving us breathless and wondering, “What just...
View ArticleHas the Year of Mercy Changed You?
Do you remember what your feelings were when they announced that we would have a Jubilee Year of Mercy? I remember feeling indifferent. What I needed wasn’t a Year of Mercy, I thought. Feeling...
View ArticleThe Year of Mercy Knocks At My Door
It was barely warm enough to be called spring. I trudged far along Carolina Beach wrapped in a quilt, brushed soft with memories reaching back to a great grandmother who stitched it, whilst thumbing...
View ArticleA Vital Component of the Year of Mercy
For the past several months, articles about “How to Celebrate the Year of Mercy” have been crowding Catholic websites and social media. The majority of the articles that I’ve read focus on the Corporal...
View Article'Tis the Season for the Works of Mercy
“Works of Mercy” photographed by Jim Forest (2008) via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 “Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something...
View Article5 Simple Things We Can Do To Become Vessels Of Mercy As Moms
As The Year of Mercy Wraps Up – Develop An Action Plan for Moving Forward As we approach the final days of the Year of Mercy, it is important that we develop an action plan for success in living a...
View ArticleMercy: the Virtue of the Month
Via Pixabay (2013), CC0 Public Domain. Text added in Picmonkey. “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” Matthew 5:7 As promised last month, this is the second of twelve Virtue of the...
View ArticleForgiveness is Mercy #OTEM
This post is part of our Ordinary Time, Extraordinary Mercy series, in which CatholicMom.com contributors will share their own experiences of living the Year of Mercy. Beginning at Pentecost and...
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